Arizona gov. signs bill targeting ethnic studies

[BridgeTheGap]

PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill targeting a school district's ethnic studies program, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure.

State schools chief Tom Horne, who has pushed the bill for years, said he believes the Tucson school district's Mexican-American studies program teaches Latino students that they are oppressed by white people.

Public schools should not be encouraging students to resent a particular race, he said.

"It's just like the old South, and it's long past time that we prohibited it," Horne said.

Brewer's signature on the bill Tuesday comes less than a month after she signed the nation's toughest crackdown on illegal immigration — a move that ignited international backlash amid charges the measure would encourage racial profiling of Hispanics. The governor has said profiling will not be tolerated.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100512/ap_on_re_us/us_arizona_ethnic_studies

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Glad to see that Gov Brewer has no racist tendencies...

x(

[pinboy3niner]

5. No subtle ones, anyway

(btw, cat got your tongue? You're only single-posting! LOL)

[BrklynLiberal]

9. LOL. I find that not EVERYTHING I have to say is worth saying twice...

LOLOLOLOL :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[nykym]

2. Uh...Excuse me Mr. Horne

Yes it is exactly like the old South and the old south ideal should be prohibited. Most ethnic groups are oppressed by whites. Isn't it funny though how those whites were once in the minority as an ethnic group are now repeating the exact same prejudices that were applied to them.

[groovedaddy]

3. Too much reality for them. They can't deal with it. n.t

[Speck Tater]

4. I'm reminded of the Spaniards who destroyed all the Mayan documents.

An archeological disaster. This is the same kind of narrow-minded anglo-chauvinism. Just more "our culture is superior" bullshit.

[L. Coyote]

8. and made it illegal to write anything about Native Americans

Translation from the Codice Franciscano of the Royal Decree relative to the General History of the things of New Spain:

"The King. - Mr. Martin Enriquez, our Viceroy, Governor and Captain General of New Spain, and President of our Royal Audience thereof. From some letters which you have written us we have understood that Brother Bernardino of Sahagun of the Order of Saint Francis has composed a Universal History of the most noted things of New Spain, which is a very copious computation of the rites, ceremonies and idolatries which the indians used in their infidelity, divided into twelve books and in the Mexican language; and though it is understood that the zeal of said Brother Bernardino has been good, and with the wish that his work bear fruit, it does not seem convenient that this book be printed or distributed in any form in those parts, for (some origins of consideration) several reasons; and so we command you that after you receive this our decree, with much diligence you procure those books and without there remaining original or some translation, you send them with good security on the first occasion to our Council of the Indies, for their review; and you are given notice to not consent that in any form some person write things which appertain to superstitions and the way of life which these indians had, in any language, because so agrees with service to God, our Lord, and (with) our (service)."

Madrid, 22nd of April of 1577. Signed: "I the King"

http://www.jqjacobs.net/writing/intgrstd.html#views

[Speck Tater]

10. Holy shit! That's unbelievable! nt

[L. Coyote]

11. The list of legal books in Spain fit on one page, all else was burned, all history of conquest

was destroyed and rewritten by the Office of the Holy Inquisition and the Council of the Indies. All legal books were thereafter edited word for word.

[Obamanaut]

6. More discussion here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8321705

[L. Coyote]

7. BOYCOTT ARIZONA

I'm pulling out of m AZ gallery.